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TMS welcomes back NASCAR fans July 17 - July 23, 2020 Vol. 18, Issue 47 www.sportspagdfw.com FREE 2 July 17, 2020 - July 23, 2020 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 18 Issue 47 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com Follow us on twitter @sportspagedfw | www.sportspagedfw.com | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 18 - Issue 47 | July 17, 2020 - July 23, 2020 3 July 17, 2020 - July 23, 2020 AROUND THE AREA Vol. 18, Issue 47 LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST sportspagedfw.com Established 2002 SMU’s Buechele named to watch list Cover Photo: 4 AROUND THE AREA Award Watch List. across the Conference’s social media plat- Sixteen semifinalists selected from the forms and will continue through June 15, 5 RANGERS REPORT final watch list will be named on Nov. 10. 2021. As part of the 25th anniversary BY DIC HUMPHREY The Foundation will announce the three recognition, each institution created com- 6 GOLF, ETC. finalists two weeks later (Nov. 24). The memorative videos with versions for foot- BY TOM WARD 2020 Davey O'Brien Award winner will be ball, men's basketball, women's basketball 2020 TEXAS GOLF HALL OF unveiled live on ESPN Dec. 10, during and Olympic sports. FAME INDUCTEES The Home Depot College Football Awards. The Big 12 Conference was founded on 7 BY ART STRICKLIN Buechele Named To Davey O’Brien Watch List The 44th Annual Davey O'Brien Awards February 25, 1994, and began official com- QUICK LOOK THE MEMORIAL Dinner is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 15, petition with the 1996-97 academic year. 8 TOURNAMENT FORT WORTH, Texas (SMU) – Shane BY PGATOUR.COM Buechele was one of 30 quarterbacks 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas. The original structure consisted of 12 uni- reseason Watch List Calendar THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT named to the preseason Davey O'Brien. P versities with eight of those as current 9 PREVIEW The award is presented annually to the July 13 | Chuck Bednarik Award members in Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, BY PGATOUR.COM nation's best college quarterback and is the July 14 | Davey O'Brien Award | Shane Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TMS WELCOMES BACK NASCAR oldest and most prestigious national quar- Buechele Texas and Texas Tech. On July 2, 2012, the FANS July 15 | Doak Walker Award Big 12 welcomed TCU and West Virginia 10 BY SPEEDWAY DIGEST terback award. Buechele was a semifinalist for the award in 2019. He returns for his July 16 | Biletnikoff Award for its current 10-institution membership. COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND July 17 | Mackey Award Since it began competition in 1996-97, 12 NOTES second season as SMU's all-time leader in BY BO CARTER single-season passing yards (3,929) and July 20 | Jim Thorpe Award the Big 12 has collected 63 NCAA team Outland Trophy & Nagurski Award AUTO REVIEW passing touchdowns (34). He also set the July 21 | titles and 689 individual national champi- 15 BY KBB.COM program record for single-game passing July 22 | Groza Award & Ray Guy Award onships. The Conference has had 720 stu- touchdowns with six against Temple. July 23 | Hornung Award & Wuerffel Trophy dent-athletes rewarded as Academic All- 16 2020 NFL SCHEDULES BY TEAM Buechele registered 4,034 yards of total July 24 | Maxwell Award Americans and 34,960 recognized on BY STAFF offense last season, which ranks second for Academic All-Big 12 teams. 18 THE TICKET WINDOW a Mustang. The Big 12 sponsors 23 sports. Men’s Along with Buechele's TD total, he also squads include baseball, basketball, cross 19 RESTAURANT REVIEW led the AAC in passing yards per game at country, football, golf, indoor track & BY RICHARD POLLAK 302.2 and points responsible for at 222. field, outdoor track & field, swimming & Heading into the season, Buechele ranks diving, tennis and wrestling. Women’s in the top 10 on active career FBS lists for Big 12 Conference Commemorates 25th teams are fielded in basketball, cross coun- completions (2nd, 710), passing yards Anniversary try, equestrian, golf, gymnastics, indoor Follow us on (2nd, 8,565), total offense (2nd, 8,928), TD The Big 12 Conference will commemo- track & field, outdoor track & field, row- passes (3rd, 64), passing yards per game rate its 25th anniversary during the 2020- ing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, Twitter & Facebook (5th, 237.9), total TDs responsible for (5th, 21 athletic year by recognizing the memo- tennis and volleyball. 70) and completions per game (6th, 19.72). rable student-athletes, coaches and teams Big 12 institutions create a league that twitter.com/sportspagedfw In 2019, Buechele was a finalist for the since inception. Highlights include national encompasses five states and nearly 38 mil- Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award and a championships, award winners, academic lion people. 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He has always been a free other bullpen candidates include Edinson swinger at the plate, but Woodward feels Volquez, Wes Benjamin, Luis Garcia, Ian that if he’ll become more selective (i.e, quit Gibaut, Juan Nicasio, Ariel Jurado, Alex swinging at pitches out of the strike zone), Speas, DeMarcus Evans and Cody Allen. he thinks Santana will be an extremely The starting rotation was set when dangerous hitter. Woodward also com- spring training began last February, and mented that he felt Santana is the second nothing has changed. No injuries or poor best power hitter on the team behind Joey performances to change the Rangers’ mind. Gallo. The five are Lance Lynn, last season’s Perhaps the biggest surprise on the ros- pitcher of the year for Texas, Mike Minor, ter is Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Woodward indi- who also was one of the top 10 pitchers in cated on at least two radio interviews and the American League last year, Corey to the media that IKF will likely be the Kluber, Jordan Lyles and Kyle Gibson.